BUFF-BACKED HERON. 557 



OR ALL A TORES. ARDEIDjE. 





THE BUFF-BACKED HERON. (Adult.) 



THE LITTLE WHITE HERON, (Young.) 



Ardea russata. 



Ardea cequinoctialis, Red-billed Heron, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 25. 

 Little White Heron, MONTAGU, Suppl. to Ornith. 



Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii.p.20. 

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 97. 



russato, Buff-backed Heron, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 24. 



JENTNS, Brit. Yert. p. 188. 



Rufous-lacked Egret, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Heron Aigrette eZoree, TEMH. Man. d'Ornith. pt. iv. 

 p. 377. 



THE first, and, as far as I am aware, the only notice of 

 the occurence of this rare bird in England was communi- 



